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reviews 3.5 stars, jim broadbent, leslie manville, mike leigh, ruth sheen

ANOTHER YEAR

February 20, 2011

It’s Amazing How Desirable The Simple Life Can Be For Those That Don’t Have One.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 1.5 stars, alejandro gonzalez inarritu, drama, foreign, javier bardem, spain

BIUTIFUL

February 17, 2011

Inarritu Needs to Go Back to Filming Parallel Stories.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, aaron eckhart, diane wiest, drama, john cameron mitchell, nicole kidman, sanda oh

RABBIT HOLE

February 9, 2011

Sometimes in life we lose sight of who we are, and instead allow what we are to set the course. Eventually that course becomes so defined, that trying to continue on without it is like a streetcar trying to run without rails. When this loss of direction takes place – and in every life, it…

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, canadian, drama, foreign, suspense

INCENDIES

February 3, 2011

Death is never the end…it always leaves tracks.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2.5 stars, action, cameron diaz, christoph waltz, comic book, jay chou, michel gondry, seth rogen, tom wilkinson

THE GREEN HORNET

January 16, 2011

Not quite “a comic book movie” as one might think – and that’s not a good thing.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, drama, michelle williams, ryan gosling

BLUE VALENTINE

January 9, 2011

A beautiful and heartbreaking ballad to a shattered relationship.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2 stars, alan cumming, alfred molina, ben whishaw, djimon honsou, felicity jones, helen mirren, julie taymor, russell brand, shakespeare, the tempest

THE TEMPEST

January 3, 2011

Taymor’s second swing at Shakespeare doesn’t go nearly as well as her first.

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Ryan McNeil
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